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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

St. Paul's Foundation of Vancouver

The purpose of the Foundation is to fund facilitate promote and carry out activities which are consistent with the objectives of the Providence Health Care Society and the Providence Living.

C$38M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$28M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$170
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$162k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$38M
C$1,101,922
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$321M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Providence Health Care SocietyC$28,371,452
Providence Living SocietyC$5,244,627
University of British ColumbiaC$2,514,716
Providence Health Care Research Institute TrustC$1,101,922
Burnaby Hospital FoundationC$800,000
Provincial Health Services AuthorityC$161,944
Vancouver Coastal HealthC$170
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$220M · 12 repeat orgsC$77k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

C$220M
C$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • PH
    Providence Health Care Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$186M · revenue +57%
  • UO
    University of British Columbia
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$17M · revenue +55%
  • PL
    Providence Living Society
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$7.8M · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • MU
    McMaster Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue +27%
  • BC
    BC Children's Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +24%
  • CL
    Canadian Liver Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$2k · revenue -28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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2
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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3
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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4
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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5
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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6
St. Paul's Foundation of Vancouver

The purpose of the Foundation is to fund facilitate promote and carry out activities which are consistent with the objectives of the Providence Health Care Society and the Providence Living. The Foundation aims to improve the efficiency of…

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7
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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8
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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9
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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10
Victoria Heart Institute Foundation

The charity performed an assisted with research and trials in bc dealing with a range of cardiac care studies. the charity accepts grants donations and other funds to carry out the above.

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11
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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12
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Provincial Health Services Authority and the most unlike its peers is St. Mark's College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetProvidence Health Care Society — C$185,867,315 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$16,700,066 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetProvidence Living Society — C$7,780,083 over 3y, 12% of budgetProvidence Health Care Research Institute Trust — C$4,019,097 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$2,648,748 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBurnaby Hospital Foundation — C$1,675,859 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetVGH & UBC Hospital Foundation — C$372,741 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetProvincial Health Services Authority — C$271,634 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Michael's Centre Hospital Society — C$254,701 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSt. Mark's College — C$240,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMcMaster University — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrain Canada Foundation — C$30,286 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Liver Foundation — C$1,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Coastal Health — C$980 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vancouver FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way East Ontar…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Vancouver FoundationBC5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancouver Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 119257939:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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